Your self-worth sets the tone for everything. From your relationships to your career. In this Encore Episode, I break down six powerful, science-backed strategies to help you raise your self-worth, strengthen your identity, and stop depending on external validation for confidence. Whether you’ve been stuck in cycles of comparison, people-pleasing, or self-doubt, these tools will help you build inner trust and finally feel good in your own skin. We explore why self-worth is different from self-esteem, how your thoughts shape your identity, and what to do when you don’t feel “good enough.” You’ll also get actionable steps to start rewiring the way you see yourself without needing approval from anyone else. This one’s for anyone who’s ready to stop shrinking and start owning their space. Live show tickets - dyfmpod.com/sydney-live-show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello beautiful beans and welcome to the podcast episode of today. I'm actually just jumping in here before we get started on the topic of today's episode to let you know, especially my Sydney beans, that I am doing a one-off Sydney live show in February, Feb 4th. It's going to be Unbelievable. It's going to be the best show yet.
And I am apologizing because I left Sydney out of the Lost But Make It Look Intentional live show tour across Australia. It was unbelievable. But unfortunately, I was not able to add Sydney on that tour list. But now we are coming back to Sydney with the Lost But Make It Look Intentional show. One last show of that tour and it is going to be bigger and bigger.
Chapter 2: How can providing value for others increase your self-worth?
and better than any other show I've ever done. So if you live in Sydney or really anywhere in the world, because I have had people come from New Zealand and Seattle, by the way, to my live shows from around the world, love this so much. So if you live in Sydney or anywhere in the world, then head to dyfmpod.com and click on the link for the live show tickets and buy yourself a live show ticket.
It's Things going on before and after. There's VIP tickets as well that are available where we're doing a meet and greet. We're doing drinks after. There's a whole – it's all happening. So jump on the website. Get yourself a live show ticket.
Chapter 3: What perspective should you adopt to improve self-worth?
It's going to be on a Wednesday night. So maybe go have dinner, have drinks in the city, and then come and change your life at the live show because I will – that's my aim, to change your life. Anyway, over and out. Love you guys so much. Let's get straight into the episode of today. Hello, my beautiful burns and welcome to the episode of today.
So in today's episode, we're going to be talking about, or I specifically, I'm going to be talking about six ways to increase your self-worth. Now, I'm actually revisiting a whole bunch of topics that I have covered in the past around self-worth because I was like, I want to do another episode on self-worth and I've done episodes on self-worth before. So I've gone and revisited those.
Chapter 4: Why is caring more essential for self-worth?
I'm going to resurrect a couple of them, but I'm adding a bunch more to the list as well. So we're getting it to six ways to increase your self-worth. And the reason I want to talk about self-worth is because a lot of my content is around your relationship with yourself and self-love and self-worth is is a huge factor. It's one of the major pillars of self-love, okay?
If you do not think that you are worthy or valuable as an individual, then it's going to be really difficult for you to then love that version of you or who you are, and you're likely going to be seeking other people to prove your worth or to prove your value.
And then the issue with that is that it's a bit of a lottery because sometimes you're going to meet some really beautiful people who do that all the time and they're showing you your worth, they're showing you your value, they're showing how much they love you. But if you can't provide that for yourself, you're also at the risk of meeting people that –
are the opposite and they tear you down and they manipulate you.
Chapter 5: How can you respect your brain and mind to enhance self-worth?
You never want to be at the mercy of what other people think you are because there's going to be good and there's going to be bad. And if you get stuck in the bad, then you're going to feel really shit about yourself. You want to be the standard. And the beauty about setting the standard of what your worth is, that A, you're less likely to have the shitty people come into your life.
And B, you're more likely to bring into people that are going to match that standard or in some cases go above and beyond. Because they adore you so much. So that's like win, win, win, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. So we're going to be talking about how you can feel worthy, things that are going to help you increase your self-love by increasing your self-worth.
Okay, we're going to get straight into the brain fact of today. The brain fact of today is going to be around something called REM sleep disorder and also what happens in REM sleep disorder, which is a lack of muscle atonia.
Chapter 6: What is the difference between commanding and demanding respect?
Okay, so this REM sleep behavior disorder is called RBD. But REM stands for rapid eye movement, which is a phase of, it's one of your sleep phases, where obviously if someone has their eyes closed, you can see rapid eye movement underneath their eyelids. It's part of, it's an important part of your sleep, many cycles of sleep.
So you've got your rapid eye movement, that's the R, and then sleep behavior disorder, BD. I don't know why that isn't an S there, but it's RBD. And it's basically a sleep disorder which is characterized by the absence of normal muscle atonia, which is a paralysis during REM sleep.
Normally when we get into this phase of our sleep, that's where you've got all these vivid active dreams that are going on. And your body... undergoes this kind of muscle paralysis in a way, and that prevents people from physically acting out their dreams.
Obviously, we all move in our sleep, but the actual acting out of our dreams, and obviously there are people that will act out their dreams, and that's because they're not getting adequate muscle atonia.
Chapter 7: How can reflecting on your achievements boost your self-esteem?
So in REM sleep behavior disorder, this muscle paralysis is incomplete or it's absent altogether, which means that this individual can physically act out their dreams while they are in their REM stage. So this can cause a lot of injury to themselves, of course, because they could be like hitting things with their limbs. They could be getting out of bed. They could be really hurting themselves.
And, of course, it could be hurting if they sleep with a significant other. They can be, like, fully beating up their significant other unintentionally. Well, hopefully unintentionally. So the key features of REM sleep behaviour disorder are vivid and violent dreams. So this is where people with this disorder have these intense, physically active dreams that...
Chapter 8: What are the six actionable steps to increase your self-worth?
can and often are violent or aggressive, but not always. It doesn't have to be violent or aggressive. And this can include behaviors of like sleep talking, shouting, kicking, punching, jumping out of bed in the middle of their sleep. Like it's intense. Okay. Then the next feature is lack of muscle atonia. So this is where you're not getting that normal tension.
muscle paralysis that should be happening during REM sleep, there's this absence of it. And then of course, another feature is this high potential for injury. So because there's all this physical activity, you're at much higher risk of injuring yourself when you're asleep. And normally people with REM sleep disorder will have to put measures into place to
so they're less likely to injure themselves based on how their room is set up or maybe to sleep closer to the wall so they're not falling out of the bed and things like that. Now, the lack of muscle atonia in REM sleep behavior disorder, it's due to this disrupted regulation of muscle tone during this stage of sleep because in a typical sleep cycle,
including REM sleep, the brain is sending signals to inhibit muscle activity through a whole range of different neurotransmitters that are involved, which I'll go into in a second. And that's what results in the paralysis. And this paralysis is obviously a protective mechanism that is preventing you from acting out your sleep and getting hurt.
And when it's disrupted, you're getting this disorder. And the exact cause of it is not fully understood, but we do know that it's got to do with a dysfunction in... the brain regions that are responsible for the regulation of REM sleep and muscle latonia, and also the release of different neurotransmitters that are involved in REM sleep disorder and in taking care of muscle latonia.
So the neurotransmitters that are involved are the ones that are going to be involved in regulating your sleep-wake cycles, ones that are involved with muscle activity. And even though we don't completely understand the mechanisms behind it, we know that there are the following neurotransmitters that we're going to mention in a second that play a key role in this disorder.
So the first one is a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine. So acetylcholine is released in the brainstem, and it activates the motor neurons, okay, that are responsible for muscle atonia. So in REM sleep disorder, there's going to be an imbalance in acetylcholine levels, and this leads to the inability to achieve muscle paralysis.
So then you continue moving the muscles instead of paralyzing the muscles. Then we've got GABA. GABA is also heavily involved. GABA, as you probably know because I've banged on about it so much, is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain. So it's the one that inhibits activity in the brain.
And of course, because its role is inhibition, it plays a massive role in relaxing the muscles. And it's believed that a deficiency in GABA, not enough inhibition, or decreased levels of GABA or decreased response to GABA, in the brainstem is what is contributing to this loss of muscle atonia. So that's why you're getting too much activity because there's not enough inhibition.
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